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Charles Gill and Ryan Knight are facing felony charges for allegedly throwing snow at a plow and an undercover police car. The pair were charged with throwing missiles at occupied vehicles. If convicted, the men face 1-5 years in prison, and a maximum $2,500 fine. In addition to the snowball throwers, a group making snow angels was detained, but no charges were filed.

Wish I understood why people think its okay to throw "soft" objects are moving vehicles. I've had my front windshield shattered from a water balloon and almost wrecked on rain soaked roads. Snowballs can be an even worse projectile.

If more people would understand some very basic math, thew would never do such things. Any object with mass hitting a vehicle at speed creates the potential for serious damage or injury.

Snowballs can and do damage vehicles. The proper mindset is, if these kids have time and the d

Lol "" I'd personally love to beat the shit out of people like you (just for play of course), but assholes like you always turn hypocritical at this point and start running for their parents, (or the police, when they get older)." Said the anonymous coward.

Bring it on badass, we'll tape you to a lamp post and pants you, then throw snowballs at your micro unit. I bet your mommy calls the cops.

Sounds like someone was teased as a kid and wasn't able to overcome it. "Meek" could be considered a form of "nice". There are a variety of sociological reasons behind teasing, and teasing can also be a form of positive socialization and an opportunity for improvement if the target of that teasing is emotionally stable enough. Particularly children without brothers or sisters end up having a hard time because they are inexperienced in dealing with social conflict. On the other hand children with many siblin

For your understanding. The young have the immortal feeling of infinite entitlement.In a small town, one drunk teenage summer night, we were having a roman candle/ bottle rocket fight in one of the public parks.One of the local deputies dropped by to make sure we weren't having any fun. Upon his departure, Toby and Droop fired bottle rockets at the cruiser. One went up his tailpipe in an odds beating shot, the other, in his passenger side window where the report was compressed into a satisfying explosion. T

Just exactly how fast was a snow PLOW likely to be going in inclement weather? For that matter an undercover police car was likely not moving too fast either considering the weather here on the East Coast brought us FEET of snow that totally overwhelmed snow removal services. a week later I'm still driving on some streets that have 6inch thick ice sheets on them. I don't think you need worry that these were vehicles traveling 60MPH being pelted by objects which wold indeed be deadly serious!

RTFA. They weren't throwing snowballs at the plow and police car; they were throwing snow with a shovel. They continued to throw snow when the cops opened their doors and got snow inside the cop car... way to piss off the cops, morons!

YES! YES! We should kill 'em in the 'lectric chair, bring them back, and kill'em again. Then turn it on till they burn to ashes and deficate on the remains.

Or, we could get a decent sense of perspective and realize that police acting like goose stepping thugs does far more damage to society than a couple college students over-doing the winter fun ever can.

Surely hauling them to the police station and then charging them with simple disorderly conduct would make the point just fine without making the police l

The police point out that this wasn't just a few snowballs and that this occurred in the middle of a snow storm! These guys were throwing SHOVEL fulls of snow onto windshields and when the officers attempted to exit their vehicle they received shovel fulls of snow as well!

These weren't 10 year old children but 21 year old college students who ought to have had a little more common sense! I'm not sure a felony charge is warranted unless they're being charged with criminal stupidity but they sure ought to be charged with something. Not the brightest bulbs on the porch....

At least somebody RTFA. If these kids were just throwing snowballs, this would be absurd, but according to the press release: "As the officers arrived on the scene, the offenders threw shovel fulls of snow on the windshield of the plow and at an unmarked HPD vehicle. As the officers were exiting their vehicle, the offenders also threw snow inside the police vehicle." This isn't really just a simple case of "kids will be kids" its a case of "young adults can be complete morons".